Keith Fitch (BM, ’89; MM, ’92, DM, ’95) spent the month of July in residence at The Copland House (Rock Hill), in Cortlandt Manor, NY, Aaron Copland’s longtime home. He was one of eight composers chosen for 2014 from a pool of 99 applicants. While there, he worked on a piano quartet to be premiered in February 2015 by members of The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Institute of Music faculty. Recent performances of his music include his guitar and harp duo Knock on Wood, performed by Jason Vieaux (guitar) and Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) to great acclaim on their Spring 2014 West Coast tour and subsequently recorded by them for Azica Records (Fall 2014 release); In Memory (chamber orchestra) performed by the League of Composers Orchestra (NY), the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, and the Berkshire (MA) Symphony; and Midnight Rounds, performed several times in the last two seasons (including an East Coast tour) by Ars Futura, a Cleveland-based new music ensemble. Keith currently heads the Composition Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Fitch earned his BM, MM, and DM from Indiana University as a student of composition under Frederick Fox, Eugene O’Brien, and Claude Baker, double bass with Bruce Bransby and Murray Grodner, and chamber music with Rostislav Dubinsky, founder of the Borodin Quartet.
More information here: http://www.keithfitch.com